[Coco] Drivewire and raspberry pi 2

[Aaron Wolfe]

I wrote drivewire using a prolific adapter for testing.  It's not that all
of them are bad, just that some are, and its hard to know what's what.
Most problems stem from bad drivers which is much less as issue on linux
anyway.  You'll probably be fine.

On Sat, Jul 4, 2015, 4:16 PM John B <trymyz at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well damn.  I have (3) Serial to USB adapters and they all have a Prolific
> chipset.
>
> On Sat, Jul 4, 2015 at 4:12 PM, Steven Hirsch <snhirsch at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 4 Jul 2015, John B wrote:
> >
> >  Ahh.  Usb to serial plugged into the PogoPlug.  Got it.
> >>
> >
> > I'm using a little adapter with an FTDI chipset.  It's a no-name special
> > picked up at a Hamfest for $15.  When I hosted DW4 on my Linux
> workstation
> > the adapter easily supported 430kbs communication from a Coco FPGA.  No
> > dropped data ever.  I haven't tried this with the Dockstar.
> >
> > As many have mentioned on this list, it's probably best to avoid adapters
> > based on the Prolific chipset.
> >
> >
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